Bringing science and technology studies into agricultural anthropology: Technology development as cultural encounter between farmers and researchers

cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.creator.identifierTodd A Crane: 0000-0002-4395-7545
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12028en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2153-9553en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environmenten
cg.subject.ilriPARTICIPATIONen
cg.subject.ilriEXTENSIONen
cg.subject.ilriRESEARCHen
cg.volume36en
dc.contributor.authorCrane, Todd A.en
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-03T11:48:39Zen
dc.date.available2014-11-03T11:48:39Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/51357
dc.titleBringing science and technology studies into agricultural anthropology: Technology development as cultural encounter between farmers and researchersen
dcterms.abstractThe “farmer-back-to-farmer” model of agricultural development, pioneered by Robert Rhoades and Robert Booth, urged technologists to use farmers' knowledge and practices as both the starting point for technological innovations as well as the ultimate measure of the value of innovation. This approach was premised upon close ethnographic study of farmers' livelihoods, especially how technical agricultural practices interacted with household dynamics, community structures, and cultural values. However, the original “farmer-back-to-farmer” approach left the “expert” practice of science and technology as an implicitly practical and apolitical space rather than as a subject of ethnographic study. The increasing and diverse articulation of farmers' livelihood practices with the professional practices of agricultural scientists demands theoretical tools that bring them all into the same frame of analysis. This article proposes that the integration of agricultural anthropology and science and technology studies provides a well-balanced toolkit for analyzing participatory technology development as a space of cultural encounter.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2014-06-12
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCrane, T.A. 2014. Bringing science and technology studies into agricultural anthropology: Technology development as cultural encounter between farmers and researchers. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 36(1): 45-55en
dcterms.extentp. 45-55en
dcterms.issued2014-06
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectresearchen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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